Oh man, here we go. Up until this point, Edgar Wright’s Ant-Man has been a pin on the proverbial calendar, a mark of the promise of what’s to come. The above Tweet makes things more tangible. More real. Ant-Man is coming, and it’s safe to assume production is underway.

That was posted an hour ago on Wright’s Twitter feed. Now that Wright has delivered The World’s End -- the final chapter of his Cornetto trilogy with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost – he’s officially free to turn his attention to the Marvel superhero he first teased alongside Marvel President Kevin Feige at San Diego Comic-Con 2012. Remember that moment? (Fast forward to the 3-minute, 30-second mark for the start of that presentation.)

But with this Ant-Man image come the questions. Who is in that suit? Does Wright have an actor in place for his Ant-Man movie? Are we going to hear about casting sooner rather than later? We’re going to have to, as Marvel has circled July 31, 2015 as a release date for the Ant-Man movie, putting it right at the head of the studio’s Phase Three … and the first movie on the Marvel slate after the Avengers sequel.

Here’s what we know about Ant-Man to date. Wright is going to direct from a script he co-wrote with Joe Cornish. It won’t connect to Ultron in the classic comic sense (at least, according to Wright’s explanation), which has a few fans scratching their heads. But the studio must have a tremendous bit of faith in what Wright is planning, because the release date was shifted from November to July – which means it will be in the wake of Avengers. Big shoes to fill. Here’s the image of Ant-Man that came from the test screening. The Twitter photo suggests that the design will stay the same. Excited?